Abstract: A protector for use with a circuit board connector having exposed terminals to be electrically connected to terminal pads on an inserted circuit board, the protector partially housing the individual terminals of the connector, thereby to maintain them separated and properly located and insulate them against distortion and damage during handling, shipping, soldering and inserting the circuit board. The protector has walls inserted between contacts, and preferably two cooperating protector halves are utilized, one inserted from each side of the connector.

Abstract: An hermaphrodite electrical connector in which the two substantially identical connector parts are adapted to be associated, after they have been located side by side and pointing in the same direction, by a flip-flop type of relative movement, that is to say, one not involving rotation of the connector units around an axis in the direction of telescoping movement of the parts. When the two connector parts are secured together the engaging contacts are substantially completely enclosed and insulated from adjacent contacts.

Abstract: A connector block having at least one internally bussed section comprises an electrically insulating housing having top and bottom faces and an electrically conductive buss contact. The housing has exposed on one face a plurality of apertures adapted to receive leads and exposed on an opposite face a plurality of first openings in line and communicating with the apertures respectively and a second opening bridging sides of and communicating with the plurality of first openings. The electrically conductive buss contact is disposed in the second opening and insertable thereinto through the opposite face. The buss contact comprises a body portion disposed in the second opening, a plurality of contact portions resiliently extending from the body portion and into the associated first openings respectively for contact with leads inserted through the associated apertures and associated first openings.